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Wilfred Emmons (Lamar State) to present various aspects of the subject. Mimeographed copies of a "Report-and-Prospectus ' and a "Reminder-and-Agenda" prepared by J. 0, Bailey give sosrse details on these two meeting-.. A îh'-t r.►,-,... for ¡960, at Philadelphia, is planned. 5. And Its Newsletter: EXTRAPOLATION: A SCIENCE-FICTION NEWSLETTER, I, i (Dec I959), containing 23 pages, apparently reproduced by a photocopy process, and edited by Thomas D. Clareson, Department of English, College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio, is the first number of this journal. Modeled somewhat on EFT, EXTRAPOLATION will provide an opportunity for those interested in s-f to exchange " 'notes and queries', find annotated checklists, and publish articles on both past and present science-fiction. ' The editor especially encourages the preparation of a bibliographical study listing and describing "s-f stories appearing in American magazines during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries." The first issue contains (pp. 2-4) an article on '"ña}cr Trends in American Science-Fiction: 1880-1915" and (pp. 5-23) "An Annotated Check list of American Science-Fiction: I88O-I915." REVIEWS Barbara Seward. THE SYMBOLIC ROSE. NY: Columbia University Press, I960. $5.00. The late Barbara Seward here traces the development of the symbolic rose as used in modern English literature, especially by Yeats, Eliot, and Joyce, to its origins. The most significant origins, she finds, are in the literature of the Catholic Middle Ages and in the romantic nineteenth century. Thus, the first three chapters of her book ("Quest for Origins," The Medieval Heritage," and "The Romantic Heritage ) sketch in the background necessary to an understanding of the use of the rose symbol by Yeats (Ch. 4), Eliot (Ch. 6), and Joyce (Ch. 7). EFT readers will be especially interested in Miss Seward's discussion of the use of the rose symbol by the creators of the esthetic movement (Pater, Morris, Rossetti), by the decadents (the early George Moore, Arthur Symons, Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson), and, more subtly and genuinely symbolically , by Oscar Wilde (pp. 84-86). So, also, EFT readers will be interested in the chapter called Yeats and Transition." Although this is a brilliant book from so young a writer as Miss Seward (she was about 30 when she died in 1958), it occasionally is flawed by the use of devices which make the thesis at specific points seem stronger than it may really be. Thus, for example, in speaking of the watering down of the rose symbol, I gather during the '70's and '80's, Miss Seward refers to Moore's FLOWERS OF PASSION, which is not only a patently bad book but a very unimportant one. And, on the other hand, she omits any discussion of Francis Thompson, Christina Rossetti, and Gerard Manly Hopkins, which might have tempered her views on the English decadent literature of the last three decades of the nineteenth century. Still, this is an always provocative book on a very difficult subject. (Miss Seward's references to Forster, Kipling, and Moore, will be annotated in the appropriate places in the EFT bibliographies.) -- H.E.G. ...

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